Healthcare Studio Leader

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Our New York City office has an opening for a Healthcare Studio Leader. We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Position Summary

DLR Group is seeking a Healthcare Studio Leader to help grow and strengthen our Healthcare practice in New York City and across the tri-state area. This is a highly visible leadership role for a healthcare design professional who brings strong client relationships, market credibility, and the ability to guide project teams in delivering thoughtful, high-performing healthcare environments.

As the local Healthcare Studio Leader, this individual will focus on expanding DLR Group’s Healthcare presence through client development, strategic relationship-building, pursuit of leadership, and active involvement in the healthcare design community. This person should be comfortable representing the firm externally through industry organizations, professional associations, conferences, panels, and other market-facing opportunities.

The ideal candidate will bring experience working with healthcare clients across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, with a portfolio that includes complex healthcare projects, including renovations, expansions, ambulatory care, medical office, specialty care, and hospital-based work.

The successful candidate will:

• Serve as a local leader for DLR Group’s Healthcare practice in New York City and the broader tri-state market.

• Build and strengthen client relationships with healthcare systems, executives, administrators, consultants, contractors, and industry partners.

• Identify, pursue, and help secure new healthcare opportunities in partnership with local, regional, and national leadership.

• Lead pursuit strategy, client interviews, proposal input, and planning narratives.

• Strengthen DLR Group’s visibility through active involvement in healthcare organizations, industry events, panels, and professional networks.

• Maintain strong client engagement throughout the project lifecycle, from early relationship development through design and delivery.

• Partner with project managers and integrated design teams to support scope, schedule, staffing, quality, financial performance, and client satisfaction.

• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams delivering healthcare environments.

• Mentor team members and help build local healthcare expertise.

• Support a collaborative studio culture rooted in design excellence, accountability, responsiveness, and innovation.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in healthcare architecture, design, planning, project leadership, or related practice areas.

• Demonstrated experience developing client relationships and supporting growth within a healthcare practice, studio, or market.

• Strong knowledge of the New York City and tri-state healthcare market.

• Experience leading or supporting complex healthcare projects.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Planning, Engineering, or a related field.

• Licensed professional strongly preferred.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with healthcare executives, administrators, clinicians, technical teams, and project stakeholders.

• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with medical planning, clinical workflows, functional programming, room-by-room planning, and departmental relationships.

• Experience with projects in the 10,000 to 20,000+ square-foot range and larger.

• Experience with inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, specialty care, medical office, renovation, expansion, or campus-based healthcare projects.

• Active involvement in healthcare-focused professional organizations such as ACHA, AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, HFMA, ASHE, Healthcare Design, or similar organizations.

• Recognized industry presence through speaking engagements, panel participation, published work, conference presentations, or leadership within healthcare organizations.

• Existing relationships with healthcare clients, consultants, contractors, and market influencers across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

• ACHA, EDAC, LEED, or other relevant healthcare design credential.

• Experience with facility master planning, strategic campus planning, multi-site health systems, Lean design, design-build, or other alternative delivery methods.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range

$185,000—$215,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.